In part, this is because dementia affects how a person experiences the world, and game systems can also be read as inherently subjective — they don't necessarily reflect a concrete truth but model an idealized state that can be traced back to a peculiar point of view.
The relationship between abstract and concrete truth was, incidentally, taken up in the 19th-century Hindu renascence as a parallel to the doctrine of the Absolute the Advaita (nondualism), the dominant expression of Hindu metaphysics—held by the 8th-century Hindu philosopher Śaṅkara.
Mr. Dobbs said his opinion about the Andersen indictment was based on what he believed to be a concrete truth: by taking the entire accounting firm to task, authorities are punishing tens of thousands of employees who have done nothing untoward.
Here were professors, critics, editors and poets, standing up in the box to deliver lectures on the nature of literature, clouding the air with their semantic evasions, expressing opinions instead of stating facts, and thus dissolving the fabric of concrete truth on which the world of law was founded when it first began.
It's the only way to strike the balance between abstract vision and concrete truth.
Yet, despite the concrete truth, there is always that geo-political quirk that makes him special.
Yet, this contradictory nature walk, with its bleak concrete paths, holds truth for our confounding times.
The chief function of art is to meet this psychological need by expressing abstract conceptual values and metaphysical truths in concrete perceptible form.
You might've thought the high modernism of the International Style tended towards "the city" becoming an undifferentiated, pre-stressed concrete whole, but in truth the very simplicity of those great mid- and late-20th-century skyscrapers meant that the eye sought to distinguish one rectilinear block from its neighbour.
